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Question 1. What was the relationship between the Black Codes and the thirteenth and fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution that were passed during Reconstruction? Please include a discussion on the issue of the role of the federal vs. state/local government.

Question 2. In what ways did socialism criticize the structure of American society during the Gilded Age (ca. 1870-1900)? Contrast to proponents of laissez faire or Lochnerism (such as Andrew Carnegie).

Question 3. What changes to immigration to the US took place in the 1880s and 1890s? How does the nativist backlash demonstrate general conceptions of who is an American at the time? (Hint: it was called the New Immigration).

Question 4. How and why did the term "civil liberties" emerge to combat the advent of coercive patriotism during and immediately following World War I? (Please define both "civil liberties" AND "coercive patriotism" in your own words.

Question 5. How did the Harlem Renaissance shift the perceptions and stereotypes of African Americans? Why was the Great Migration such an important part of this process?